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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:29 am
by Cakedaddy
Zombie Brand skin. Best skin ever. Hands down.
At spawn, I crawl/climb out of the ground.
At death, a headstone rises out of the ground and my hand pops up.
I have 3 or 4 different run styles. Hands flailing above my head. Arms out mummy style. Arms hanging limply behind me. Then a mode where he's using them to run, but all zombie like.
Basic attack is all zombie like.
His one liners are zombie based.
And his dance. Of course that's what it is. . . and it's awesome. His taunt looks like he's a zombie noticing his arms are on fire and starts freaking out.
Every time I play, I notice something different.
Awesome.
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:21 am
by Leisher
It is the best skin I've seen.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:45 pm
by Cakedaddy
So the player run tournaments that Riot sponsors with very small RP prizes. I want to be in one. Anyone else interested? If not, I'm going to start looking elsewhere.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:57 pm
by GORDON
Depends on when they are played.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:57 pm
by Cakedaddy
The few I looked at were on weekends. Saturdays. Single elimination. Up to 32 teams.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:52 pm
by GORDON
Then maybe. I would need advance notice to make sure I don't have other plans, because I am very popular and have many, many social engagements.
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:26 am
by Leisher
Cakedaddy wrote:So the player run tournaments that Riot sponsors with very small RP prizes. I want to be in one. Anyone else interested? If not, I'm going to start looking elsewhere.
I'll address this in the LoL Competitive thread.
I lied. Let's discuss tonight when we get on to play LoL. (Malcolm is out on Tuesdays, so no BL2.)
Stranger can you get on tonight?
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:57 pm
by Leisher
RiotNome (a Riot employee) posted this 3 days ago:
"I think a lot of the upcoming changes I have planned will address the issues that the older TT players have with the new map. Some of them are small, some of them are big. I'll discuss them as work on them progresses and things start to pan out.
And yes, 1.71 will have altars unlock at 3 min, reduce the gold bonus, and do several other numbers tweaks. The capture gold bonus is still there though. I'm currently evaluating whether it's injecting too much gold into the game."
I hope they bring the fun back. This new TT basically killed my LoL playing.
Previously, we could jump on with 3 almost any night, now we need 4 just to run with a troll on SR because nobody will play TT anymore.
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:55 pm
by GORDON
Yeah. Between TT and all the changes they feel they need to make with jungling and items and everything else, I am playing about 15% as much as I was pre-TT getting pulled. Not replaced, pulled. Whatever they added is not TT.
I feel like I felt when the core UO game was getting destroyed a long time ago.
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:35 pm
by Leisher
I get that they feel they need to freshen up the meta before it gets stale, but I think they're going the wrong direction.
They're trying to make the game too fast paced and the focus seems to be on items rather than the champions...
There's a point that games hit where they become too bogged down in their own bullshit, and become inaccessible to new people. I believe that's when they begin to die. LoL might be hitting that point.
I think the problem is that they're too concerned with eSports and forgetting that the vast, vast majority of their players will never compete there. Thus, if you design the games for the eSport players, while ignoring the desires of your casual players...
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:32 pm
by Stranger
http://www.surrenderat20.net/2012....ml#more
Some masteries and summoner spell changes that are coming. And Promote is being removed, so no more Nunu promote top lane.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:16 pm
by Leisher
I think they threw up the End of Season 2 patch today.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:32 pm
by Cakedaddy
I think we are playing less because of BL2 and boredom. It was getting to the point where I didn't want to play TT because I was tired of playing the same 3 champs, the same way, over and over and over. There was some variation on SR. But we were often playing the same champs there too.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:47 pm
by GORDON
I'm not bored. I am on almost every night waiting for peeps to play. I do get a little tired of playing the same character every time SOMETIMES but the fact we are always going up against different peeps with different champs is what keeps it fresh for me.
I get frustrated when we hit a streak of playing up against incredibly, amazingly hard hitting people who roll us like we are all afk.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:03 pm
by Cakedaddy
Ya, sometimes they pick the perfect counter to our team. And sometimes we just don't know how to play against the enemy. A good Blitz will beat us every single time. We don't know how to counter him.
I have been doing a TON of studying and it has made me a better player. I understand more of the mechanics. The math behind the numbers. etc. I always assumed a lot of things, but I'm finding I wasn't always correct. I'm finding that having an AD carry rune page and an AP carry rune page isn't enough. You need an Ashe rune page, a Cait rune page, a Cog rune page, etc. Sure, they are mostly the same, but having your runes/masteries compliment your champs abilities instead of just having a generic AD rune page is better. Of course that makes sense. But I don't think anyone has taken the time to figure out the best rune/mast for any given character. We all have generic pages for roles we play.
I don't always win my lane, but, I'm WAY better than I used to be. I can participate in early kills, which was something we never did very well. I farm the CS about 150% better than I used to. I play my position better. I know more about my enemies and how to counter them with items. But, in the end, to be really good, you have to land your skill shots. And that's more often than not what determines my success.
Had a rockin' game as Brand last night. Not epic, but 9/2/11 isn't too bad. I was landing a very high percentage of my skill shots. I was anticipating your flips better than normal. One time in particular, when you flash flipped the enemy. I didn't know the flash was coming, but I figured eventually there would be glue, then a flip. So, I had my E queued and ready to go. But then you flash/flipped. But, since I was already anticipating your getting the flip, I was ready for it. Slight mouse adjustment and bam, they were dead. I don't remember which of us got them, but we did. But anyway, that's us having a good game.
But by changing my Ashe build, I'm way different than I used to be. I used to be all about attack speed. Which scales well late game. But I was getting dominated early game. Now I scale right along with the enemy. So, when they make mistakes, we can capitalize on them. Was with a wukong today. Ya, awesome support. Against a voli and cait. He fed Cait early cause he was stupid. But by level 7, every time I sent my big arrow, we'd score a kill or two. So we were able to catch up. I didn't have to time it. I'd just send it when it cooled down. We were both doing enough damage that they'd both be running away dying. I also take flash and ghost with her. No more exhaust. I shouldn't be close enough for exhaust.
Point is, I'm awesome.
But so are you guys.
Oh ya. The other point is that I've learned that after 2 years of playing, we still have a LOT to learn to be epic and that the other teams may have already figured out the perfect team comp and build and they play it over and over. Thus, rolling us.
I'm confident that with what I know now, I could build a team that would win 90% of blind pick games as long as we all land 70% or more of our skill shots. But, that team would never exist in a ranked game because most of the champs would be banned.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:11 pm
by Leisher
I think we are playing less because of BL2 and boredom. It was getting to the point where I didn't want to play TT because I was tired of playing the same 3 champs, the same way, over and over and over. There was some variation on SR. But we were often playing the same champs there too.
Hey Scooty, call me when you feel we play these champs properly. After all, we aren't doing runes and masteries properly...
Granted, sometimes we're bound to have a bad game, meet up with a good team rocking a better combo, etc. However, I don't think we need to completely change things up. I can tell you right now that I'm not an Ezreal expert by any means.
I also think we should be focusing on roles more than champs. If I went AD Carry every single time without fail, it shouldn't matter if I play as Ez, Graves, Corki, Kog, Ashe, etc. That'd be switching things up right?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:31 pm
by Cakedaddy
I agree with everything you said.
But.
It's hard for us to focus on a single role because we never have a team of 5 any more. Since our hitler rarely fits right into our group, we have to change things up. I can't always have mid, cause sometimes hitler wants it. You can't always adc cause hitler wants it. Etc.
I think we are fine on SR because of the hitler variable. It was the noc, top lane, every game, over and over, that was getting old. Still fun because we were good. But still. Was getting old. AND, even when I didn't play with you guys. I still felt like I had to take Noc top lane because that was all I knew! So, I was trapped. . . .
But ya, everything else I agree with:
Our runes/masteries could be better. Wouldn't say they are wrong (unless Ez has armor. 
). Just room for improvement.
We will always run into a team that is better than us. Unless we all get younger, move into a dorm and play 24/7. Never meant to imply this required a complete change up.
Agreed that although Ez plays differently than Kog plays differently than Graves, etc. You always playing that role would be easier for you to transition from Ez to Kog instead of me from Ziggs to Kog. But, I would not play my champ exactly the same if you were Ez instead of Kog. They serve the same purpose, but they do it in different ways. So ya, different.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:35 pm
by Leisher
We need a 5th.
Hitler has been the cause of a lot of pain for us. Having a 5th doesn't mean we're all stuck int he same roles all the time, but it'd make it MUCH easier for us to learn roles. It'd also get rid of the constant wild card.
It's like playing Texas Hold'Em except you only get the best hand out of 4 cards, while everyone else still plays with 5 cards.
We need to find someone in their 30s with an interest in gaming.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:58 pm
by Cakedaddy
And who's good.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:05 pm
by GORDON
I don't know why TPR wont step up.